Time Travel: After Seizing the Throne, I Lead the Ming Dynasty to Take Off

"Extremely sensitive and explosive fulminate of mercury!"

"Your Majesty is truly a genius! To think you could come up with such a plan!"

"I want to come..."

"Your Majesty has indeed long grasped the essence of this world!"

Han Lingyue was already looking excited.

Once he started talking, he became more and more excited, like a machine gun, with saliva flying everywhere.

As he spoke, his face turned slightly red.

When the words fell, a pair of eyes stared at Zhu Yunhuan, as devout as if they were worshiping a god...

At this moment, everyone had already forgotten the little episode from before. Although they couldn't understand what this Taoist named Han Lingyue was saying, what kind of barren stuff was he talking about...

But I heard one thing clearly.

I understood it too.

They all exchanged glances with wide eyes, gasping in shock: "Extremely sensitive...extremely prone to explosion!?"

“Is there really such a thing?!”

"If I heard correctly... he said... the explosion just now was caused by lightly touching that... mercury thing, right?!"

"..."

Of course, they were not unfamiliar with this statement. After all, they had just discussed this "mysterious and unrealistic" material before!

I originally thought that this was just a nice idea of ​​His Majesty.

Turning around...

This kind of material has already been researched? It's already exploded once in this alchemy department! !?

What the hell is this Alchemy Department? What kind of crazy stuff is there? ——And that needle-strike ignition thing I mentioned earlier… can’t it be said to be so out of the blue?

Everyone had a look of disbelief on their faces.

Zhu Yunhuan was delighted, a faint smile appeared on his face, and he nodded and said, "There is nothing wrong with the production process. Judging from what you said, fulminate of mercury should be correct."

Speak of the devil, here he comes—isn’t he?

Han Lingyue took a deep breath, calming his overly excited emotions. He said, "Your Majesty, although the fulminate of mercury has been successfully produced, the reaction process still requires more experiments and attempts. Standardizing the reaction conditions will ensure a stable reaction and minimize errors."

"Besides that, if we want to truly apply this fulminate of mercury in practice, we need to spend more time and effort to study how to preserve the finished product."

"From now on, disciple may... need some time."

Zhu Yunhuan pondered for a moment and nodded.

These are normal demands based on the characteristics of this reaction, and he is not surprised. On the contrary, the fact that fulminate of mercury is produced so quickly is faster than he expected.

After all, this reaction has very high requirements for temperature and pH.

After thinking for a moment, Zhu Yunhuan affirmed his results:

"It hasn't been that long since I handed this matter over to you. You've already achieved the final product so quickly. It shows that you've put a lot of effort into it. It's a great achievement."

"What you've described is indeed quite difficult. Once you've stabilized the production process and the finished product, I'll reward you accordingly."

Enthusiasm is one thing, and so are rewards, affirmation, and a sense of accomplishment.

The sustainable development of cattle and horses is still very important.

Hearing this, Han Lingyue's face was indeed filled with joy. His eyes lit up and he bowed sincerely: "Your Majesty, rest assured. I will definitely let you see the complete results as soon as possible!"

Hearing Han Lingyue's words, the others present couldn't help but jump in their hearts:

“This thing… really works!?”

"If you really put this thunderbolt, mercury, or that device Your Majesty mentioned, which ignites with a single touch of a steel needle, into a musket... my goodness! The Yuan barbarians will all die!"

"Your Majesty, you really can do whatever you say!!"

"..."

All of a sudden, many people began to have wild thoughts.

Zhu Yunhuan, on his part, said to Han Lingyue calmly: "I have always trusted you to do things." One cannot eat hot tofu in a hurry. Zhu Yunhuan has never been a person who is so eager for quick success.

Anyway, he has done everything he can, and everything else can only be left to nature.

Han Lingyue paused, scratched his messy head a little embarrassedly, and said, "Disciple... there is one more thing, hehe."

There are few rules in the Alchemy Department, so he naturally speaks more casually.

Zhu Yunhuan didn't know what else to say for a moment, but Han Lingyue had always been dedicated to his work, and he had seen it, so Zhu Yunhuan said patiently, "Just say it."

"This...death row prisoners...Your Majesty, could you please assign me another batch? We are short of some of them."

"You know, what I've been tinkering with involves gunpowder and other things, which consumes quite a lot. I just wasted two of them..."

Hearing Han Lingyue's words.

Not only Zhu Yunhuan was a little confused.

The large group of people present had no idea that this slovenly middle-aged Taoist priest... would actually say this.

Death row, consumption...this statement.

You are not a Taoist priest, you are the living King of Hell, right?

But on second thought, the death row prisoners are already unforgivable criminals. If they are not blown to death here, they will be beheaded at Caishikou. It would be better to put them to good use here.

Thinking of this, many people subconsciously looked at Zhu Yunhuan, their eyes seemed to have deep meaning and a bit more respect.

For nothing else.

But they saw that dealing with dangerous things like gunpowder was left to the condemned prisoners here. His Majesty was really considerate of them...

His word "precious" really came from the heart!